Journal of Other Forum Analysis (Volume II, Issue 2)

[BIONIC]

"Pro-vaxxer", a vaxxer would include people who reluctantly vaccinate. The "pro" makes them sound like some kind of weird enthusiast.

[benji]

I've looked into this a bit, and it seems for an average income individual in the country, the tax burden on that person is almost exactly the same between most Western European countries and the US when factoring in the higher personal taxes on labor in Europe + VAT vs sales/state tax, but the average cost of healthcare being lower in Europe vs the average US healthcare cost, and the higher property taxes in the US (unless you go to a very low property tax state).   However, Americans make more money on average than Europeans so they have more disposable income, have access to a bigger market and more job opportunities, and it's definitely easier to start a business in the US.  But for someone like Nepenthe, who can't see the advantages she has, it might as well be Serbia.

These are the actual graphs THEY don't want you to know about:


edit: Wikipedia lied about the size of this second image, the 640px link goes a 960px file lmao

Your explanation for a system needs to explain why different tax systems produce a historical tax share that's so remarkably stable over time. (The latter one going back for the EU looks just like the US one in terms of relative stability. If you add debt the US line will move up to match the EU one, we simply don't pay the taxes for things we buy with the state.) Nobody cares to do this, even the US government always (for example, both W. Bush and Obama did this, estimating it would jump to 25% as a share) forecasts tax changes as breaking dramatically from the pattern without explanation for why it will. You'd think somebody at the CBO and OMB might care that every estimate they'd ever made overestimates revenue and underestimates outlays. In 1967, the government estimated that all of Medicare would cost $12 billion in 1990. The actual figure was $98 billion. OMB has never accurately predicted the GDP change for a year. This has had no effect on how the government makes future estimates.

Yet everyone believes they can just "simply" alter the system to produce the results they expect. Both expert and "expert" alike. Historical trends predate me so they're irrelevant and I can simply assert that they support what I want to do even if there's no examples of what I want being done in human history. We just need to tax the rich at 70+% again. Like we did from 1940-1980, see history supports me so you can't question what I want. But wait, what's that tax revenue as a % graph look like for back then... (and what were the lower brackets paying? Shut up you.)

It's why I prefer when they just start talking about wanting to kill people. Billions in the case of Nepenthe, but we can't raise Soapbox's property taxes a few mills to pay for what he and she wants done?

[xiceman191]

"Discrimination is wrong" yet wants to discriminate against someone who doesn't agree with them. You can think an idea is stupid but that doesn't mean you get to decide if that person is worthy of having a job or not.

[benji]

It's "controversial" because people read that 6 word description in the thread title and assumed it was literally just that, instead of actually reading the fucking patent. So we keep spreading objective misinformation.

I suspect they're "looking into it" because the government is run by terminally online weirdos part of a movement born from a terminally online gaming weirdo fiasco, and are trying to court gamers with performative nonsense.

Very cute to read these posts as , especially considering you criticize people for "not reading" while skipping the part that says that the initial granting of the patent was widely criticized by actual IP lawyers

Also Trump has nominated a lot of idiots but in this case the only thing I can find is the Director is well respected in the IP community. So most likely there is some issues behind the patent for him to personally get involved.

You mean like Gene Park (aka not actually an IP lawyer) and Florian Mueller (whose own take has been criticized by other lawyers for being an inaccurate summation of the actual scope and contents of the patent)?

Right, right. I def haven't read anything about this. But I'm sure you have! I'm sure you know exactly who made what claims, and why. And that's why you're so convinced as to their veracity. Just like everyone else here. 🙄

It wasn't though. Gamers tossed the barebones descriptions at random lawyers on Twitter and nabbed a few "I haven't read the patent, but it sounds pretty bad" quotes shortened down to the back half.

Were.the IP lawyers that criticized it emotionally invested too?

Care to be more specific? Are you referring to Florian Mueller (whose own takes have been criticized by other laywyers), or perhaps Gene Park (who isn't an IP lawyer)? Because those are the two primary sources behind the general public's understanding re: the scope and contents of these patents.

How about this lawyers opinion?

I'll bring up Haley MacLean's (who is a working video game IP lawyer) video from when this was approved. I'm not a lawyer, but since she is I'd defer to her judgement and she succinctly shows why this was bad.

The IGN article names Florian Mueller, Kirk Sigmon, Don McGowan and the japanese patent office.

Strange, Doskoi Panda stopped replying to the thread after being all over it and every reply.  

Also, another Nazi strike for Gene Park. Always knew he was sus.

[Boredfrom]

Is this going to be the generation where Nintendo fanboys are going to go full mask off and become full on  corporate apologists? 

Two good console generations in a row make selling Nintendo as the underdog a laughable endeavor.

[benji]

Is this going to be the generation where Nintendo fanboys are going to go full mask off and become full on  corporate apologists? 

Nintendo is one of the good guys, producing pro-lesbian works like Splatoon and Pokemon.

[jooseloose]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/tech-layoffs.1341925/

It seems like everyone is getting hit lately. My entire LinkedIn network is basically and suddenly open to work.

Some of you know where I work and my whole team was wiped with absolutely zero warning.

Anyone else in this boat? This is my first unexpected layoff (contracting for Blizzard didn't really count, as I knew it was gonna end).

Is both funny and pathetic that she still doesn’t want to mention she worked at TikTok after that whole stunt at beginning of the year. And it sounds like her team was useless anyway.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/tech-layoffs.1341925/post-147185323

We were all getting ready to move to a brand new shinier office, taking a bunch of trainings for new stuff....my manager was blowing me up with praise about how big my bonus was looking to be and that I was basically a shoe in for promotion. And then Friday, boom. An email, a 10 minute video meeting and the whole department was axed, managers included. Like 200 people.

And the work we did was crucial too. I just don't understand at all how they think outsourcing and Ai can take over.

We are extremely lucky that we got a nice severance and I (hopefully) have time to find another job but it looks like my extremely specific specialty (T&S, mis/dis) is like...Just being dropped or outsourced now. I'm flabbergasted.

[Jansen]

How was fiction so fucking dumb that they didn't see that coming 

[Jansen]

Moderating tiktok is crucial, life-saving work y'all

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/tech-layoffs.1341925/post-147185323

And the work we did was crucial too. I just don't understand at all how they think outsourcing and Ai can take over.

Kind of problematic to suggest foreigners can't be jannies for a formerly Chinese social media platform.

[Jonsey]

How was fiction so fucking dumb that they didn't see that coming 

Dumb cunt

[DavidCroquet]

Fiction's username is highly accurate. 

A day in the life of T&S:
"uh oh, looks like this guy with 10 followers and no posts commented 'let me likk ur slit' on a prominent user's reel!" 
 
"Someone chatted during a megastreamers live broadcast 'plz help my dad is killin my mom'...we sent a dm to the local--based on a whatismyip lookup--police's tiktok account (they told us they would call the landline number on file for that address sometime today)!"

[Nintex]

I think Mamdani is going to dissapoint today. He played the "Hahaha I'm a communist" card a bit too much to appeal to the voter group with the lowest turn-out.

Old people will vote for Cuomo/Trump. It's going to be bernie situation.

[DavidCroquet]

I was really rooting for Sliwa, especially after some dude on Era posted the Sliwa dossier full of his amazing and based accomplishments across many decades.

[benji]

I think Mamdani is going to dissapoint today. He played the "Hahaha I'm a communist" card a bit too much to appeal to the voter group with the lowest turn-out.

Old people will vote for Cuomo/Trump. It's going to be bernie situation.

It's New York fucking City dude.

[Nintex]

It would be dumb for New York to vote for a communist with literally the only President and Vice President in office who would literally send in the tanks for a day of good television.

[HaughtyFrank]

I think Mamdani is going to dissapoint today. He played the "Hahaha I'm a communist" card a bit too much to appeal to the voter group with the lowest turn-out.

Old people will vote for Cuomo/Trump. It's going to be bernie situation.

I wouldn't be too surprised if he still gets it. It's still funny though that it seems to be close. If there was anyone running who is a Democrat and not also an octogenarian sexpest they'd probably beat Mamdani handily

[HaughtyFrank]

In a previous post I alleged that Andrew Cuomo is 80 years old, this is incorrect. He's a fresh and young 67

[Jansen]

AI is a failure, back to the drawing board!

https://www.resetera.com/threads/obsidian-the-video-game-company-uses-hallucinating-ai-support-telling-users-to-email-obsidian-the-note-taking-company.1343674/

[benji]

It's not close, Mamdani's up 10-14 points in the polls. As he's been almost the entire race.

If there was anyone running who is a Democrat and not also an octogenarian sexpest they'd probably beat Mamdani handily

He crushed all those people in the primary: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_New_York_City_Democratic_mayoral_primary

[Nintex]

Hillary Clinton had a 91% winning chance  

When Trump mixes himself into an election weird shit happens, especially in a city he has clout.
New York has lots of Italians, Jews, Stock brokers. Who knows. Anything could happen.

Asians, Black People and Arabs also not a winning combination.

[benji]

Hillary Clinton had a 91% winning chance  

And she did indeed win the popular vote.

[Nintex]

Hillary Clinton had a 91% winning chance  

And she did indeed win the popular vote.

You mean the illegal vote

[benji]

You mean the illegal vote

Because the D+40 city will be all about stopping that. Get a coherent excuse or save time and stop trying to talk about a system you abjectly refuse to learn about.

[Nintex]

Fox News has been blasting all day to get ye old people to vote for cummo against 9/11 2.0.

[benji]

Fox News has been blasting all day to get ye old people to vote for cummo against 9/11 2.0.

Staten Island was already going to vote Silwa and Cuomo.

Please try to learn how NYC votes by looking at 2021 and 2024, which were not remotely close elections:

[Orange Juice Box]

Yeah he might be rich, but have you considered the fucking FACT that he's statistically maybe more likely to be struggling?

I love when they do this.  It's like telling someone whose aunt died in a place crash, "statistically, that's not true."  AKA; the Jussie Defense.

[nachobro]

i like sliwa cause of the hat, also hes got more nyc vibes to me

[saltygeneraltso]

Twitter wasn't real life and neither is X you crazy Dutch bastard.

[nachobro]